Sentences with phrase «how particular students»

Teachers may pass along pertinent educational information such as standardized test scores to the next teacher, but they should never pass along information about how a particular student or class behaves.

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This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

On both sites, I am always open to input from other students of Scripture about how to translate Greek and Hebrew, or how best to explain a particular word or phrase.

The students function as collaborative researchers, people who are themselves attempting to identify and understand the particular facts to be uncovered in this situation, and how ministry is to be undertaken.

First and foremost, how to get creative on the spot, modifying lessons to reach each group of students and their particular needs for the day.

In math: rather than a grading scale, ask students how many questions they believe they need to get right in order to feel they've mastered a particular skill.

Middle and high school students, in particular, are learning how to look at the week ahead, predict which days will be packed and which may be free, and should be allowed to work on tasks in their own schedule.

The main reason end of the year standardized tests are given is to measure how well students have learned the skills that are expected to be taught at a particular grade level.

Another important factor to consider when comparing your school or district with another one is how many students are qualified for free and reduced price lunch in each, and what percentage of the cafeteria volume is represented by paying students; note that the percentage of students in any category eating in the cafeteria is not the same thing as the number of students who are classified as being in that particular category.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

Brownell studies biology education, in particular how undergraduate biology students learn and how instructors can develop more effective ways to teach.

«These items focus not only on content, but on student's problem - solving skills, their scientific reasoning, and how they approach a particular problem,» Asghar said.

As a graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco, he heard molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon describe how worms with a mutation in a particular gene had double the lifespan of those without it.

A final - year Italian Ph.D. student in materials surface science, Erik Vesselli describes how the presence of many big institutions in Trieste, in particular the synchrotron radiation facility at ELETTRA, have contributed to offer him a dynamic, international, and creative scientific environment.

Each map, such as those for Natural Selection and Statistical Reasoning, shows how students» understanding of a particular topic might progress from the simplest ideas in kindergarten to more sophisticated ideas in high school.

In a typical lab activity, «the relevant equations and principles are laid out in the preamble; students are told what value they should get for a particular measurement or given the equation to predict that value; they are told what data to collect and how to collect them; and often they are even told which buttons to press on the equipment to produce the desired output,» write the researchers.

McGuire and his colleagues and students have collected reptiles and amphibians throughout the island — flying lizards are his particular love — and taken genetic samples to reconstruct the evolution of species over time and perhaps shed light on how and when the islands came together.

Her research does not examine directors» actions or motivations, nor does it explain how they choose the particular students who work in their labs.

Fourches and Jeremy Ash, a graduate student in bioinformatics, decided to incorporate the results of molecular dynamics calculations — all - atom simulations of how a particular compound moves in the binding pocket of a protein — into prediction models based on machine learning.

Mingzhen Lu, first Princeton author and a graduate student in Hedin's research group, said that if root traits do in fact determine a plant's ability to withstand a particular environment, these findings could be valuable in conserving endangered species or projecting how plants might adapt to climate change.

If you have a story to tell — something you've realized over the course of your career about how to get students excited about learning; a strategy you recently tried that didn't quite work out and how you changed course; an aha moment that led you to rethink how you teach a particular subject or lesson — you're in the right place.

Of particular importance here is how policy might induce students to enroll in lower - quality schools.

It is a way of helping teachers know how much time a particular question requires from some students, and if they're getting better; if not, what further efforts should be made for their improvement.

Consequently, there is a need for more research to understand how writing outcomes may be improved, especially since written tasks are often how students communicate their knowledge about a particular topic or discipline within both formative and summative assessment tasks.

From these models, it is easy for students to visualise how a set of three base pairs from a messenger RNA molecule (codon) matches with a particular amino acid.

You're on the front lines of transforming K — 12 education, and you have a story to tell: something you've realized over the course of your career about how to get students excited about learning; a strategy you recently tried that didn't quite work out and how you changed course; an aha moment that led you to rethink how you teach a particular subject or lesson.

«Using the QT model and, in particular, looking at the higher order thinking and explicit quality criteria, requires you to think about how much higher order thinking you've asked students to do in the task, how you've valued it and how you've transmitted that knowledge to students.»

Even with a plethora of how - to advice on creating community in a classroom, it can be difficult to know what will work best for any particular group of students.

In other words, the curriculum is developed not simply as a top - down specification of what somebody believes students in a particular year of school should be learning, but as a description and picture of how long - term progress in an area of learning typically occurs in practice.

Lastly, when students come across a sight word, or a word that they can not remember how to spell or read, they now know how to investigate that particular word while learning a little more about English orthography.

In particular, students infer and interpret key information about the characters from their introductions into the play, before tracking how their characters develop through close analysis of key quotations.

They spot strengths in other students, talk about how they are using particular strengths themselves and develop an understanding that they all have their own unique capabilities and ways of understanding the world.

Professor Howard Gardner, one of Rose's first professors at the Ed School, says, «Todd's focus on what we know about the individual student and how we can mobilize pedagogical and curricular resources to meet the particular student is of fundamental importance.

Taking a cue from what Harvard recommends for its students, make notes along the margins (if using physical paper) or in the comments box (if using digital format) to highlight how the particular piece of content is relevant to the course or which learning objective it fulfills.

The departments, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gave the school districts «guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline,» telling them they risked legal action if school disciplinary policies had «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

Regarding its pedagogical use, students can record their own videos describing how they solved a particular problem step - by - step (e.g. a trigonometry problem) or explaining their thinking process about the structure of an essay.

When parents of students with disabilities were asked «how well do the facilities at the child's school attend to his / her particular needs?»

Because the performances of all students would continue to be reported on the current NAPLAN score scale, it would still be possible to calculate year level averages, to show how students perform in relation to their year group, and to identify levels of proficiency that, ideally, all students should reach by particular times in their schooling.

This depends on how schools assign students to such programs, in particular, whether a child's eligibility is based on a comparison to other children in his grade or to other children his age.

How much individualized support does a particular provider offer to its students?

In particular, EdSurge with the Charter School Growth Fund is hosting «DIY Learning: The New School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.»

Going back to the personalized point that we talked about before, how would a trainee learn to identify a student's needs and when they were ready for a particular lesson?

He showed me charts with stick figures in five colors (representing percentages of English school children) that are used to explain to teachers and parents what the particular problems were for each group of students and how to fix them.

Put simply, a principal and leadership team that knows how to use the resources and expertise available to them in ways that maximise the outcomes students can achieve is a key determinant of the success of the school and, in particular, the extent to which teachers can deliver high quality teaching to each and every class.

In particular, I explore how Michigan implemented course access to expand online learning opportunities for students across the state.

Ideally, improved assessment practices will show us not only what students are learning but also how they are learning and why they may or may not be gaining particular skills or knowledge.

Geoff Masters: «When we think of teaching as... primarily the delivery of the curriculum for a particular year level and we think of assessment as the process of judging how well students have learnt what we've just taught, there is a problem because students don't start the year at the same point in their learning.

Others collect ideas, rich materials, lesson plans and activities, based on their intuition about how students within a developmental range learn through and about a particular discipline; next they look at the CCSS to assign standards and objectives to the newly acquired content.

If players receive different versions of a game that have particular concepts changed or introduced differently, and the game records how players perform, researchers can use this data to understand how students learn.

In particular, students infer and interpret key information about the characters from their introductions into the play, before tracking how their characters develop through close analysis of their key actions and quotations.